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CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... emit nitrous oxide when applied to crops; livestock, which produce methane through digestion; and fuel combustion and electricity use. The report suggested several examples that provide increased incentive for growers to adopt sustainable agricultural ...

NAB funds Melbourne building environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... owner of 123 Queen Street, will fund a AU$1.3m retrofit of the building, including a trigeneration system to generate electricity, heating and cooling, occupancy sensors and double glazing. The retrofit is intended to cut CO2-e emissions by approximately ...

Carbon Farming Initiative welcomed, more work to come

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... that's being worked through. It's going to ostracise some people in the market if ASIC turn around and say you need electricity trading experience, because it means that people how do have carbon trading experience elsewhere, but not electricity trading ...

Use of renewable energy to grow by 6% a year to 2035

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
The use of renewable energy resources in electricity generation is expected to grow at 6% per year between now and 2035, according to Professor Quentin Grafton, executive director and chief economist of the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). ...

Renewable energy provides 10% of Australia's electricity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
Nearly 10% of Australia's electricity was derived from renewable energy sources in the year to September 2011, according to a report by the Clean Energy Council. According to the council's Clean Energy Australia Report 2011, Australia's electricity ...

Pacific Hydro reduces carbon footprint 37%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... from a portfolio of wind farm and hydro power assets in Australia, Brazil and Chile. The company sells and trades electricity, electricity derivative products and energy-related environmental products, such as Renewable Energy Certificates and EU Certified ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... companies that want lots of carbon credits might be able to manipulate the market effectively." Anderson notes that many electricity retailers and generators already have AFS licenses because they trade in derivatives. The draft legislation provides ...

LGS uses trigeneration technology for property retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... reduce the building's emissions reduced by approximately 85% and allow the building to operate independently of the electricity grid within a year. The upgrade of 76 Berry Street, North Sydney, was a tri-generation project that combined cooling, heat ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Woods said. "There is certainly an issue there for debt holders, and that's one of the discussions around brown coal electricity generators. Are they too leveraged? That's how people are thinking about it, and that's how we're thinking about it." Although ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... the carbon pricing regime. Within the jobs and competitiveness package, the allocation of free carbon credits for electricity use is one concern, Anderson said. "Of particular interest to many clients is one of the provisions that deals with large electricity ...